3 papers
math.LO2025
Optimal Syntactic Definitions of Back-and-Forth Types
Ruiyuan Chen, David Gonzalez, Matthew Harrison-Trainor
The back-and-forth relations are central to computable structure theory and countable model theory. It is well-known that the relation is (ligh…
math.CT2025
Hilbert spaces admit no finitary discrete imaginaries
Ruiyuan Chen, Isabel Trindade
We prove that every functor from the category of Hilbert spaces and linear isometric embeddings to the category of sets which preserves directed colimits must be essentially consta…
math.LO2025
Componentwise Polish groupoids and equivalence relations
Ruiyuan Chen
We study Borel equivalence relations equipped with a uniformly Borel family of Polish topologies on each equivalence class, and more generally, standard Borel groupoids equipped wi…